iOS 14 Jailbreak status

Scarlett Miller
4 min readSep 1, 2020

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Every year Apple releases it’s latest inventions with a very classy event. This fall, Apple released their latest version, iOS 14 with its own iPhone model. The specs were Provided to developers in June at WWDC 2020.

WWDC 2020

This iOS 14 is one of Apple’s biggest iOS updates to date, introducing Home screen design changes, major new features, updates for existing apps, Siri improvements, and many other tweaks that streamline the iOS interface.

iOS 14 features in brief

  • Compatibility with all devices able to run iOS 13
  • Home screen redesign with widgets

Widgets provide more data than ever to provide more functionality. Widgets are for default apps like Calendar, Stocks, and Weather. There are also new widgets for Screen Time and Apple News.

All of your widget options can be viewed in the Widget Gallery by long pressing on the display, choosing “Edit Home Screen” and then tapping the “+” button. The Widget Gallery’s widget suggestions are based on what users are installing the most, and third-party app developers can create new widget experiences for their apps.

  • App Clips

This is a small part of an app experience. Users take advantage of some app features without needing to download the full app. App Clips can let you do things like rent a scooter, purchase a coffee, make a restaurant reservation, or fill a parking meter just by scanning a code, with no need to download a full app.

Efficient way isn’t it?

  • No full screen calls

This is a space-saving measure. Incoming phone calls and Siri requests will no longer take over the entire screen. Phone calls (and FaceTime/VoIP calls) show up in a small banner on the iPhone’s display, while activating Siri shows a small animated Siri icon at the bottom of the screen.

  • Privacy enhancements

Updated privacy protections require developers to get permission before accessing devices on a local network, and there are new options for limiting access to select photos or providing apps with only approximate location data. All apps are also required to get user permission before tracking them across websites, and new icons show up on the Home Screen when an app is using a camera or microphone.

Digital car keys let users unlock or start their car with an iPhone or Apple Watch, and next year, with the U1 chip, the car keys lets users unlock cars without taking the iPhone out of a pocket or bag. Car keys can be shared through Messages and disabled via iCloud if an iPhone is lost.

  • Translate app

This new Apple-designed Translate app provides text and voice translations to and from 11 languages. An On-Device Mode lets languages be downloaded for on-device translations only, and a Conversation Mode speaks translations aloud so users can talk with someone that speaks a different language, and it automatically detects the language being spoken and translates appropriately.

  • Cycling and EV routes
  • App Library

App Library is a great new feature that shows all of the apps you have installed in an organized, simple-to-navigate view that’s similar to the app list view on the Apple Watch.

App Library
  • Find My app will include support for third-party products and accessories, so item trackers like Tile can be located directly in the Find My app.

How to Download and Install iOS 14

iOS 14 is now in the developer beta stage. Developers who have a registered Apple developer account can have iOS 14 beta before the public release. Since this is still in beta stages there might be bugs and installing iOS 14 beta just for fun is not advisable as of that. Install it with your own risk and prior installing better to have a back-up as a precaution.

iOS 14 Jailbreak

So as you can see iOS 14 is full of surprises but still iPhone users might have not quenched their thrust for various apps. That is why jailbreak tweaks take place. To have tweaks, the iPhone must be jailbroken. There are hundreds of jailbreak tweaks available in the jailbreak community right now. Since, installing tweaks require jailbreak, there are specific jailbreak tools for specific iOS versions.

For an Eg: one of the latest versions of iOS 13 — iOS 13.5 has been jailbroken by Odyssey Jailbreak.

Even the very latest iOS 13.7 can be jailbroken by checkra1n jailbreak which is a hardware jailbreak.

Talking of iOS 14 jailbreak, pwn20wnd with unc0ver and checkra1n hot the jackpot. As we hoped both checkra1n jailbreak and unc0ver did their duty to serve iOS 14. Checkra1n has the ability to jailbreak iOS 14 for older devices — e.g. the iPhone X and below. The specific processors have a hardware flaw in them that cannot be patched by Apple.

But latest iPhones require different technology with kernel exploits and are also easily patched. So this type of jailbreaking is now possible of Cicuta virosa exploit and pwn20wnd took the advantage of this. He and the team dearly developed unc0ver jailbreak for iOS 14 and was confirmed by the developer himself. The jailbreak tool will be released soon. So iOS 14 jailbreak Online is now possible and will get back with more details of the front soon.

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